Re: [Gnumed-devel] DrugDisplay / AMIS

[richard terry]

> By the way, did anybody think about the use of something like an GUI -
> builder (Boa Constructor) or at least creating the python-GUI-code from
> some kind of definition (e.g. XML) at installation ? 

Boa is interesting, and worth a play with but I found it irritating to use in 
its current incarnation and still pretty buggy. My progamming skills are 
still pretty minimal, but I've certainly found it easier to do it the hard 
way!

>There are certainly
> other parts of the gnumed -GUI which are country-specific (e.g.
> prescriptions). 

I think here we will probably end up with a gmPrescriptions_au.py , 
gmPrescriptions_de.py with some commonality.

BTW the module source code for the GUI which I've written is really shit code 
and pretty basic. I'm not a programmer by nature (though I was very 
proficient at visual basic - see www.gnumed.net/rterry/Index.htm in case 
you've not stumbled across this). Havn't quite got the handle on wxPython 
yet, and am frustrated by its limitations cf to visual basic, however Karsten 
et al are fixing my code gradually (I hope).

Regards


In a (hopefully not so distant future) we might benefit
> from not having to change the module source code to implement GUI-changes.
> I'm not suggesting to do the switch right now, since the builders I have
> seen are early alpha versions; I just wanted to know :).
>
> Hilmar
>
> > Regards
> > Dr Richard Terry
> > gui co-ordinator.
> > gnumed.